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In the winter of 1979, 11-month-old Jessica Madison died of smoke inhalation in a house fire in Adrian, Michigan. The fire was set to conceal a double homicide: her mother, 24-year-old Yolanda Torres Madison, and a friend, 19-year-old Theresa Carey, had been beaten and shot to death inside the home before the blaze.

The case sat cold for decades. In 2010 investigators identified and charged Anthony Guy Walker, then already serving time for other crimes. Walker pleaded guilty to the murders of Yolanda Madison and Theresa Carey, admitting he broke into the home intending to rob it, tied up and beat both women, and fatally shot them. He denied setting the fire that killed Jessica.

Walker also confessed to other killings, including the 1975 death of Arleen Salcedo found near Blissfield; those additional admissions were not prosecuted as part of this case. He was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of Yolanda Madison and Theresa Carey.

Did anyone in the Adrian area at the time recognize suspicious activity around that home in 1979 or have information about the night of the fire?